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<p>This is sort of a New Year's resolution... In no particular order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Write a book.</li>
<li>Learn at least one new programming language.</li>
<li>Donate money to (or become member of) either the <a href="http://www.eff.org">EFF</a>, the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a>, the <a href="http://www.ccc.de">CCC</a>, or another similarly important organization.</li>
<li>Make use of my rights as a citizen and write letters to elected politicians, urging them to promote certain topics/issues/laws (privacy, democracy, transparency) and to combat others (software patents, voting computers, data retention, mass surveillance and lots more comes to mind).</li>
<li>Work on and support selected Free Software projects in my spare time, especially projects which are of a greater importance to the Free Software movement (or the Free Culture movement; or freedom; or privacy; or anonymity; or democracy) than the 158th IRC client or the 276th tetris clone. Some examples: <a href="http://linuxbios.org">LinuxBIOS</a>, <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/">Nouveau</a>, <a href="http://tor.eff.org/">Tor</a>, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/">Gnash</a>, and <a href="http://www.getdemocracy.com/">Democracy Player</a> to name just a few projects. General motto: <em>Choose your battles</em>!</li>
</ol>
<p>Oh, and one more thing: Do the most important duty as a citizen of any democratic country &mdash; help to save democracy by <strong>killing voting computers</strong>.</p>
<p>Yeah, so that makes six things I plan to do in 2007. Sue me.</p>
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/five-things-i-plan-to-do-in-2007#commentscccdemocracyefffree softwarefsfmemenew yearpoliticsresolutiontop5Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:43:24 +0100Uwe Hermann1203 at http://www.hermann-uwe.de